Rate My Professor Lisa Passaglia Bauman

Professor Lisa Passaglia Bauman is a faculty member in Arts and Culture at George Mason University, serving in the Department of History and Art History as a Professor of art history. She received her PhD in Art History from Northwestern University. Her research specializations encompass Renaissance Rome, patronage and the curia, and urban planning. Bauman's scholarly interests focus on cardinals as patrons in late fifteenth-century Rome and the elaborate rhetoric of patronage of the della Rovere family.

Before arriving at George Mason University, Bauman worked at the Art Institute of Chicago and held teaching positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University. At George Mason, she has served as Academic Director for the university's Semester study abroad programs in Oxford, England, and Florence, Italy. She co-directs, along with Professor Christopher Gregg, the Winter Study Abroad program in France titled "From Roman to Parisian: Shaping the Urban Experience in France from Antiquity to the Modern Period," and the Summer Study Abroad program in the UK, "London: Building the City of Empire." Bauman helped create the university's new interdisciplinary minor in Design Thinking and teaches one of its core courses. She is a frequent contributor to the Smithsonian’s Resident Associate Program and the Smithsonian Journeys program. In 2007, Dr. Bauman was awarded George Mason University’s Teaching Excellence Award. Key publications include “The Rhetoric of Power: Della Rovere Palaces and Processional Routes in Late Fifteenth-Century Rome” in Patronage, Gender and the Arts in Early Modern Italy: Essays in Honor of Carolyn Valone, edited by Katherine A. McIver and Cynthia Stollhans (Italica Press, 2015), and “Piety and Public Consumption: Domenico, Girolamo, and Giuliano della Rovere at Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome” in Patronage and Dynasty: The Rise of the della Rovere in Renaissance Italy, edited by Ian Verstegen (Truman State University Press, 2005).